Evil Genius

Eldo wrote:EDIT: No Berserk on the 24th of November either. Yes, I know how prolonged waits are bad for your health, but try to do something in the meantime...like, respect your elders or something and be polite and memorise the names of the authority figures. I don't know, whatever gets you sent to hell.

Sorry if you've had to answer this before, but I didn't immediately see a thread announceing release dates (I lurked for awhile, and it just seemed like a new topic was posted whenever the new chapter was released). But why haven't there been any new chapters? Is Miura on vacation?

Unfortunately EG has no personal phone line to Miura, or they would have told us what's holding him. Maybe he's ill? Maybe he just wanted out of the cage? Who knows....

Ollie wrote:Sorry if you've had to answer this before, but I didn't immediately see a thread announceing release dates (I lurked for awhile, and it just seemed like a new topic was posted whenever the new chapter was released). But why haven't there been any new chapters? Is Miura on vacation?

I check release dates from Young Animal's website, where Berserk is published, and also Berserk's official site hosted by Young Animal.

We have no idea why it isn't released, or when it will be.

Sandman wrote:.... Band him band him now... J/K... or am I

How do you band someone?

Just having a little fun I guess thats not aloud anymore


Just so everyone knows that hasent had to wait for a chapter for a couple of months, this happens time to time, but this is the longest we have gone without a fix since last year about the same time... maybe he gets payed annually and goes out on the town very year about this time uhuhu Well I hope some one get an anwser soon or I am going to get inside my TV

Well I hope some one get an anwser soon or I am going to get inside my TV

If you go there, please hit that dwarf that makes all those pictures on the screen appear for me. One day he went mad and put nothing but snow on my tv, and I missed a crucial episode of X files.

I guess you didnt get it... but thats ok you would have to have read ichi, a very graphic Manga that... pm me and I will tell you where to get it... dont want to curupt too many minds... then again if they are here they probably already curupt

I got it sandman . though i forget who it was that originally said "band him"

maybe if we wait long ennough, we will be healed from our addiction to berserk.

But at the moment i just feel more addicted than ever

No, sorry, Berserk addiction (at least for the true fans, and not the whiners who think Berserk isn't any good anymore) is one of those truly horrible addictions, where if you don't get your fix, after awhile you start to go slowly more and more insane, until you ultimately descend into a terminal madness (for which there is no cure) and spend the rest of your life sitting in a padded room drooling and occasionally giggling.

Boy I hope the next chapter gets out before that happens to me.

Dude you described exactly what I am feeling right now . and you said its has no cure ? oh

Confirm. Got my first hard copy back in 1989, there really is no cure!

Istvan wrote:No, sorry, Berserk addiction (at least for the true fans, and not the whiners who think Berserk isn't any good anymore) is one of those truly horrible addictions, where if you don't get your fix, after awhile you start to go slowly more and more insane, until you ultimately descend into a terminal madness (for which there is no cure) and spend the rest of your life sitting in a padded room drooling and occasionally giggling.

Boy I hope the next chapter gets out before that happens to me.

Maybe that explains why this topic goes this way

i hardly understand what it means "sitting in a padded room drooling", but i hope it won't happen to me

(edit : i got the translation, it's softier than i thought ... the reality could be worse)

though Miura might already be confined in that kind of room by now, and it would be quite interesting to meet him

the padded room is a reference to being locked up in a mental institution with padded walls so you cant kill/hurt yourself by banging your head against the wall

Istvan wrote:No, sorry, Berserk addiction (at least for the true fans, and not the whiners who think Berserk isn't any good anymore) is one of those truly horrible addictions, where if you don't get your fix, after awhile you start to go slowly more and more insane, until you ultimately descend into a terminal madness (for which there is no cure) and spend the rest of your life sitting in a padded room drooling and occasionally giggling.

Boy I hope the next chapter gets out before that happens to me.

Hmmm, I would have thought that, after prolonged exposure to Berserk, withrawal would result in bloody carnage and high death-count.

MrFelony wrote:the padded room is a reference to being locked up in a mental institution with padded walls so you cant kill/hurt yourself by banging your head against the wall

Ok i get it thanks !

Hmmm, I would have thought that, after prolonged exposure to Berserk, withrawal would result in bloody carnage and high death-count.

Oh, it does. But that's part of the "get steadily more and more insane" part, and comes before the descent into terminal madness. At that stage, you can still be saved if you get your Berserk fix soon enough. By the end, when the madness has become uncurable, a person isn't even rational enough for carnage, they're reduced to just sitting there drooling and giggling. It's a progressive madness, you see.

Istvan wrote:

Hmmm, I would have thought that, after prolonged exposure to Berserk, withrawal would result in bloody carnage and high death-count.

Oh, it does. But that's part of the "get steadily more and more insane" part, and comes before the descent into terminal madness. At that stage, you can still be saved if you get your Berserk fix soon enough. By the end, when the madness has become uncurable, a person isn't even rational enough for carnage, they're reduced to just sitting there drooling and giggling. It's a progressive madness, you see.

And then your sister can dress you up in robes and have pictures painted of you to sell to random nazis.

Sorry, Nietzsche reference.

It's a progressive madness, you see

You seem to have much knowledge about this dark dark subject, Istvan... Could it be that within Primordial Depths lies some power terrible enough that it twists the minds of the ones who try to control it?
If so, how come that you managed to harness it without suffering the fate of your predecessors?
Though I guess Gutts could do it, he does have experience fighting the inner darkness

Must get my Berserk fix soon, I am starting to rant

You know you're desperate for your next Berserk Fix when...
You Perma-fuck you brain on PCP and try to recreate the troll battle in a toys'r'us doll section.

there's already a thread for those kind of posts...i made it a while ago...though i would like it to stay dead so no necroing . it was called "you know you've read too much berserk when..."

You seem to have much knowledge about this dark dark subject, Istvan... Could it be that within Primordial Depths lies some power terrible enough that it twists the minds of the ones who try to control it?
If so, how come that you managed to harness it without suffering the fate of your predecessors?
Though I guess Gutts could do it, he does have experience fighting the inner darkness

Must get my Berserk fix soon, I am starting to rant

There is indeed such a power, here in the Darkness. Only those who master it can claim to be a Lord of the Outer Darkness. All other dwellers in this place are slaves to those of us who dared to try to consume the Darkness, and make it part of us. As to harnessing it, that's purely a matter of will. Some are strong enough to consume the Darkness and make it part of them, and subordinate to their will. Others are too weak, and the Darkness consumes their mind.

Actually, it's the same strength of will that allows me to bind Darkness itself to me that is so far allowing me to withstand my Berserk cravings. Eventually, however, no matter how strong I am the Berserk withdrawel will draw me into the slow spiral of madness. That's why I really hope the next chapter comes out before it's too late.

MrFelony wrote:there's already a thread for those kind of posts...i made it a while ago...though i would like it to stay dead so no necroing . it was called "you know you've read too much berserk when..."

That was good times

Istvan wrote:There is indeed such a power, here in the Darkness. Only those who master it can claim to be a Lord of the Outer Darkness. All other dwellers in this place are slaves to those of us who dared to try to consume the Darkness, and make it part of us. As to harnessing it, that's purely a matter of will. Some are strong enough to consume the Darkness and make it part of them, and subordinate to their will. Others are too weak, and the Darkness consumes their mind.

Actually, it's the same strength of will that allows me to bind Darkness itself to me that is so far allowing me to withstand my Berserk cravings. Eventually, however, no matter how strong I am the Berserk withdrawel will draw me into the slow spiral of madness. That's why I really hope the next chapter comes out before it's too late.

Does that mean that you can bind to your will ANY creature of darkness?
How about seizing control of the Dark Horse creature, and telling it to issue english-Berserk more frequently?
Just a suggestion, to focus your powers from resisting B-madness to something else

Hey Istvan, have you ever played D&D? Specifically, Ravenloft setting. This conversation really reminds me of that...

MrFelony wrote:I got it sandman . though i forget who it was that originally said "band him"

It could have been me, I have said it before